PERFILES de La Soledad by RODRIGUEZ, MUÑOZ y GONZALEZ:
Title: PROFILES from La Soledad.
Medium: Videoinstallation site specific
Year: 2005
Componenets: Audiovisual DVD loop, fishing nets,bubble plastics, steel pins, tv monitor, tv table over trestels and door panel, digital printigs, naut buoies, white hot lighting, plastic and wooden fish crates, sound player, sea conches, timers.
Audiovisual length: 24'
Location: Santa Catalina hill, Gijon harbour. Spain (CE)
Autors: Alfredo Gonzalez Colunga, MRG & Begoña Muñoz Fernandez, whith special collaboration by Javier Felgueroso Carrascal.
Featuring by Ovidio fisherman, Raquel and Rebeca.
Production: LAi Medialab.
Synopsis
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The reflections of OVIDIO, one of the scarce fishermen that nowadays may be run across the Quarter of La Soledad, opens the contemporary european media art team RODRIGUEZ, MUÑOZ & GONZALEZ series "PROFILES from La Soledad", a set of audiovisual artworks in various formats which have the common purpose of approaching to different living aspects of this roman antique quarter which all together whith the nearby quarter of Los Remedios is the genuine heart of Cimadevilla, atlantic peninsula from which the city of Gijón -located in the north of Spain- was growing up to its present-day boundaries.
Ovidio, along whith his wife and his daughter, Raquel and Rebeca, are a young family that keeps up the inshore fishing tradiction, way of life and support of this seaside european quarter since its origins.
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